The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Perry Smith was born at West Point, New York in 1934 while his father was serving as an instructor at the US Military...

On the battleship, J. W. Childs said, it was mandatory for a sailor to wear his white hat if he went outside of his...

After surviving a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] flight that arrived in Hawaii on...

Edwin McAuliffe was in Covington [Annotators Note: Covington, Louisiana] visiting friends. The news came across the...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

Firman Balza believes that the Japanese lost the war that first day, but it took the United States three and a half...

Earl Williams returned from overseas where he had been in charge of aircraft disposition for the Pacific area. Assigned...

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